SMALLPOX IN BRITAIN
Infected Man Was At Cinema
(N.Z. Press Assn.— Copyright) LONDON, January 2. Warnings in four languages to “get vaccinated at once” have been sent out to 1400 persons who went to a cinema at Darlaston, Staffordshire, on Boxing Day, according to the “Daily Express." The newspaper, said that sitting among the 1400 Indians and Pakistani* at a special matinee at the cinema was 36-year-old Mohammed Siddique, who is now in hospital with smallpox. Siddique flew into London from Pakistan on December 10. He moved from London 10 days later to Birmingham and on Boxing Day he went to the matinee at Darlaeton to see an Indian film. The warnings—in English, Urdu, Punjabi and Gujerati—were drawn up at an Indian office in Birmingham.
The staff of the cinema have been vaccinated and the cinema fumigated. Shows go on. Siddique, a Pakistani, is the second smallpox case in England in the last fortnight. The first case is also a Pakistani.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19620104.2.143
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume C, Issue 29712, 4 January 1962, Page 11
Word Count
161SMALLPOX IN BRITAIN Press, Volume C, Issue 29712, 4 January 1962, Page 11
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.